HU/EN
2024
Bogdana Kosmina (UKR): Whispering Absence – Interrupted Presence
In the heart of Budapest, facing Keleti railway station, lies a rare field where time stands still - a liminal space where the ghosts of architectural archaeology coexist with nature's persistent growth. This urban green void, protected by a fragile transparent fence,...
Zoltán Grecsó – Ádám Móser: It is what it is
G.Z.: I got my faith from Grandma. She enrolled me in religious education: just in time, because I wanted to play the role of victim to someone. The Lord of All proved to be perfect: from then on, I held God accountable for suffering. Since then, I have been more...
Brida Horváth, Pierre Martin, Stéphane Pogran (FR): Shift
Shift: work done in a specific period of time. The period of time when workers are assigned to the same slot. A group of people working at the same time. There is day, night or even weekend shift. The title refers to the...
Femini: Stories carried by old waters
Being made out of water means belonging somewhere. By drinking a glass of tap water, we are not only connected to the network of sewers that run through Budapest, but also to the thousands of square kilometres of the Danube catchment area - with all its history and...
Rita Hoofwijk (NL): Danu
Rita Hoofwijk is a Dutch artist affiliated at SoAP – Space oriented Artistic Practice. Her work takes place in various locations and contexts and attentively explores these spaces that define her practice. What emerges is site-specific work of varying form and scale,...
Igor Shugaleev – Sergey Shabohin (BEL): Ich heiße Frau Troffea
Following the presentation of Igor Shugaleev’s and Sergey Shabohin’s The body you are calling is currently not available at PLACCC 2022, the Belorusain artists are back in Budapest wiht their new autobiographical monoperformance-manifesto. A week before...
Anita Patonay – Viktor Bori: Water level / Sensing the City 2024
Tamás Rojik’s youth novel Drought is the starting point of our project. The novel is set in 2050 and presents a dystopia focusing on global warming. The author projects the consequences of this on Budapest and Hungary, e.g.: the streets of Budapest are no...
Viola Mangel: Presence in-between / Sensing the City 2024
Underpasses are characterised by emptiness due to the lack of aesthetics and personality, and emptiness is uncomfortable. You cannot relate to it. Yet, paradoxically, the lack of identity and the emptiness that we experience in these places can bring us closer to...
Freund Éva: Layers of Water / Sensing the city 2024
One of the important challenges of our time, especially for the metropolitan way of life, is to reconnect with the complexity of our inherent analog nature, to rehabilitate the richness of perception and emotional relationships. Digital stimuli involve fewer senses,...
Boglárka Jakabfi-Kovács: What you see: a public affair / Sensing the City 2024
The various urban developments are determined and planned by the values of current economic policy, and these values can be read on our public spaces. If our visible world is the tip of the iceberg, what do our public spaces say about our society, our shared values...